Sentences with phrase «than a mediocre on»

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Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

Taffer's point is that if you are blaming failure or mediocre success on something other than yourself, you have no reason to change.

As a matter of fact, this is one of the main reasons for underperforming in last few years - the so called «British core» - overrated and low quality British players, well bellow, in quality, to foreigners.To spend 32 millions on 2 mediocre English players - Welbeck and Chambers - when you can get foreign «wizzards» for that type of money is suicidal.Now, go on an analyze how much Wilshere, Gibbs, Ox, Walcott and Ramsey helped the team to be the best in the last few years.And how much, for instance, did Sanchez in only few months.Alexis is better than all «British core» combined and cost a fraction of these overrated players.The time we get rid of the british players is the time we go back on top.Time will tell...

... there is a reason why Barcelona is considering cutting Pique out, he's a mediocre player, not better than our BFG, so I don't see an improvement there... As per Smalling, come on!!

He is just a mediocre player, on pair with Ramsey or Walcott.Sell them all, including Gibbs, Ox and all the British players we have.They are all mediocre at best.Other than fight in the bars, facebook posting and tattoos, what other things recommend Wilshere for attention?I hope he is not coming back and remains to Bournemouth - a team of his calibre.

Arsenal fans are charged more than any other football fans on this planet, for mediocre football, almost ZERO trophies in 11 years, and never within a million miles of a major trophy.

everything get burned to the ground - City, Real,MU,Bayern,Chelsea - they all find easy ways to go around that stupid UEFA fair play rule and the prices in players, instead of going down go to the sky.They all become more powerful than before instead of getting weak.Home grown players, English players?Just promote some kids from academy just to make the squad number.They don't even stay on the bench - but the rule is obeyed, right?So, Wenger was betting on a dead horse, he got stuck with a mediocre team, full with overpaid mediocre Brit players, youngsters no one heared about (see Sanogo case).

total failure... Can you believe Wenger spent 32 millions on 2 average players (Chambers and Welbeck) and is penny pinching when is sbout real class players?What is in his mind?Pay a fortune in salary for mediocre players live Walcott, Ramsey and Wilshere and have hesitations about increasing Sanchez wages... keeping on books failures like Sanogo... The truth is - I say it for years and years - until the «British core» disapears, we are not going to be succesful.The low quality of British players is dragging the team back.Last time Arsenal was a powerhouse NONE of the first 11 was British.Wanna see how the British quality looks like in a football team - look no further than national sides of England, Scotland, N Ireland, Wales, even Ireland (not British but same style)- all mediocre teams «able» to be defeated by any team coming to mind.And you are asking about Chambers?He is in the same mold like Wilshere,Walcott,Ox,Ramsey,Gibs,Jenkinson - mediocre overpriced and overpaid players.The world is full with hungry, ambitious and skilled players living in poverty and dreaming of moving to the top at any cost or sacrifice (did you see the poor house - if you can call that house, looking more like an old tent - in which Alexis Sanchez grew up?Or Suarez?)

Sell him quick along with all the «British core» - all overared and overpaid players showing almost nothing on the pitch.The last time Arsenal was a powerhouse, NONE of the starting 11 was British.UK is not producing good enough players, just mediocre ones.Get rid of all of them and bring hungry foreign players blessed with skill and desire.About the quota - just promote young players from second team, Iwobi is a great example that an underpaid youngster can be a lot better than primadonas like Walcott or Wilshere.

I understand Cousins may have a different preference on who he wants to sign with and maybe he doesn't sign here if the Vikings give him the best offer (could be more than Staffords), but I'd much rather have a quarterback like Cousins than two mediocre ones.

Its interesting to note that Ramsey who I believe had a pretty mediocre season last year with us appeared to play to his full potential in the euro's which means to me that he's either not surrounded by the right balance at Arsenal OR he want to be noticed to move on from us, and who could blame him really we all know that the manager and board have no will to ein the PL as they place thier profits far higfher than thier silverware cabinet and that Im sorry to say is a fact

simple, we were top of table more than any other team last year, only loss in back that started was sagna, we managed last year w arteta & flamini, of course I want to strengthen there, but the glaring issue to me is at striker, we have a full complement of good to mediocre strikers, adequate but not going to compete season long against city and chelsea, in my opinion, back line fine, DM needs upgrading, attacking midfield strongest in EPL, central striker??? put a thierry henri on this squad in his prime, we win the league,

The problem is with ur stubborn attitude.Thing is you think you can win the premiership on the cheap, but you cant cause you can't motivate the players ffs.Leicester winning the premiership will give you one more reason to say see i told you we don't need to spend big money to win the league, but you had 12 attempts to do so for the past 12 years cause our team for those year was better than Leicester squad and you still didn't win a thing.Just because you have a mouth doesn't mean you could say anything show some respect for the fans, stop blaming the fans its the mediocre players who you have at the club that needs to blamed.And you as well for not spending any money on outfield player in the summer.

I don't see how two mediocre wrs changes the fact we need to finally hit on at least one game changer at wr early and our history shows we can find oline late lall we have to do is look at what Rd Wagner and Alex Lewis we're drafted but if they are cool with getting left in the past with this pre historic style of offense than we will continue to be mediocre

Hope this one doesn't pan out the only African player we should be going for is Keita other than that it makes no sense to me, there are so many wingers better than a one season Mahrez (dembele, Brandt, Lemar, pulisic, berrardi the kid from sassuolo, Forsberg, Marco asensio, Douglas costa, Allan saint maximin, the list goes on) plus all I read was how good his dribbling skills and the occasional goal or two, I also have seen him play and as soon as things get tough his head drops that's what I mean by lazy no character, no fighting spirit and we got loads of those players the only one who differs is Sanchez so if he is coming we lose Sanchez, so no sorry I won't be happy with that mediocre replacement!!

So, congrats to the Warriors on 73, a number that seemed impossible in the NBA but is worse than mediocre over MLB's arduous campaign.

7) Governments may decide that «smart» spending on intelligence, strategic deterrents and high quality rapid deployment forces is better value for money than vast legions of mediocre mechanised infantry for a hypothetical war which nobody wants.

Obama promised more than a year ago to host such a gathering, one of several at which he has extolled the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and lamented the mediocre performance of U.S. students on international tests.

Besides, adapting to the norm is nothing else than being on a comfort zone and mediocre.

Mediocre action film, Sanctum is a film that had potential of being a great film; unfortunately it falls flat, and relies more on clichés than anything.

A mediocre Ubisoft-esque game that relies more on quantity than on quality.

Come on people, you can do so much better than this mediocre list.

Rather than expand on the depth of the previous games, X Rebirth strips away much of the good, and replaces it with the mediocre.

On balance, one could argue that Seven Psychopaths warrants a better rating than a mediocre ** 1/2, but the aftertaste is so bitter that it diminishes the sweetness that started off the meal.

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival to universally favorable reviews, Get Out might well do better with critics than moviegoers, based on the many empty seats at my screening and the upsettingly mediocre 6.1 average user rating it held pre-release on IMDb, a site whose votership has exhibited some regrettable tendencies to vote down certain racially representative works.

On the other hand, like Greta Garbo, she seems doomed for ordinary and mediocre material — the kind of material that she must overcome rather than enhance, as in Home Fries.

Coming off the back of the infuriatingly mediocre The Caligula Effect on the PS Vita, Japanese developer, Furyu and SEGA / Atlus brings us The Alliance Alive for the Nintendo 3DS — a Japanese RPG with more to it than meets the eye.

Certainly, her inclusion would have made more sense than Ridley Scott, whose work on the mediocre (albeit speedily reworked) All The Money In The World somehow made the cut, edging out other viable, potential nominees, like Dee Rees (Mudbound), Sofia Coppola (The Beguiled), Kathryn Bigelow (Detroit), and Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman).

For all of the talent on board, it isn't unwatchable, but at the very least, it should have been better than mediocre.

However, the ones that are here are woefully uninspired; the usually awesome composing team of Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy, who have reliably turned in some superlative work in even the most mediocre of films, seem to have given Carroll leftovers from their scrap bin for him to mangle in his ho - hum picturizations, robotically performed by Larter and Khan, who has never been anything better than an adequate dancer on his best days, making his casting as some brilliant choreographer even more head - scratching (where is Hrithik Roshan where you need him?).

With Hollywood «s recent penchant for turning mediocre television shows into less than mediocre movies, Charlie's Angels is now larger than life on the big screen — or maybe I was just sitting too close.

I am shocked that the film maintains a respectable 7.3 user rating on IMDb (higher than the likes of Amistad and War of the Worlds) and even a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes (albeit by the skin of its teeth with a middling 61 % all - critics approval and a very mediocre average rating of 6.2 / 10).

If some really funny comedies were in your resume, wouldn't you rather go out on top rather than tarnishing your reputation with a bunch of mediocre and underwhelming films?

◦ Trend: The public grades their local schools more favorably now than at any point in the past ten years, despite mediocre performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the same period.

On the other hand, if you are just looking for a snappy little tablet with a nice build and mediocre specs, you could do worse than the Dell Streak 4G.

(That said, Honeycomb won't do anything to fix the Streak 7's mediocre screen, which is totally inferior to the Tab, and we hate the idea of purchasing anything predicated on the hopes or promises of a software update, which is only slightly less risky than purchasing a lottery ticket.)

On more than one occasion, we've seen authors who have terrible book covers and mediocre editing jobs in their first book, and I'm never surprised to hear, «Well, my editor was also my designer.»

Though we had no problems gaming on the Iconia One 7, it scored a mediocre 6,042 on the 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited graphics benchmark, quite a bit lower than the 9,234 tablet category average.

In general, I recommend starting with KU because it's easier — direct all your marketing to one platform, try to push sales on one site and become a bestseller on Amazon, rather than split sales up and be a mediocre seller on all platforms.

On the bright side, my wife is less likely to consider homicide or bookburning, ebook prices will trend a bit lower than printed, and many mediocre or unmarketable and unpublished authors can publish now.

Profitability was recognized by the father of value investing Benjamin Graham in 1928 as a predominant driver of stock returns: It is undoubtedly better to concentrate on one stock that you know is going to prove highly profitable, rather than dilute your results to a mediocre figure, merely for diversifications sake.

On the flip side, consumers with mediocre FICO scores could end up in better terms with a lender than they expected if positive information is discovered through the lender's independent credit research.

The NHS says, «Rather than trying to be all - things - to - all - people and doing a mediocre job, we decided to focus on first doing a good job for our local community and the animals in it.

Considering the type of game it is I'm content with the length because I'd rather play an amazing game that's a bit on the short side than a mediocre game that pads out its length.

Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition is a mediocre game that is relying on misty - eyed nostalgia for sales, rather than offering a new spin on 18 - years - old content.

I am happy on this decision as it feels more right rather than the mediocre English dub.

As it is, it's just a mediocre, middle - of - the - pack entry in my eyes, and I think a lot of people would be harsher on it than I'm being.

A consistent beef on the boards is that you can run and gun through the levels, making Conviction little more than another mediocre third - person shooter.

On the other hand, maybe it'd been reasonable to expect the game would have gotten a better score than its predecessor considering how mediocre much of New Super Mario Bros for DS was and how sequels tend to be better than the original installment.

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